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Use of Equipment Lighting During Snow Plow Operations
Are you considering using liquids or growing your use of liquids in your snow and ice operation? Join us to build your understanding of liquid use and see firsthand how others are making inroads by adding and/or expanding treatment types and applications with liquid materials.
Do you have trouble getting your project(s) approved? Each and every day, as Public Works professionals we are managing assets. We build, repair, operate, maintain, and replace the critical infrastructure that our citizens and customers rely on. We are managing these assets, but Asset Management aims to do more than just manage infrastructure. Infrastructure asset management aims to optimize assets using data and strategy to make better, more timely, more fiscally responsible decisions.
The Village of Pleasant Prairie and Kenosha County partnered to on a park and ride project that included self-performed municipal construction work, an environmentally responsible design, several innovative construction techniques to reduce the impact of construction, meet critical timelines, and tight budget constraints.
When completed, the OC Loop will be a 66-mile bikeway intended to encircle much of west Orange County. The construction has galvanized local agencies to pursue projects along the route including flood control right-of-way and utility corridors, grade separated crossings, connections to other bikeways.
Endorsed by APWA's Engineering Technology Committee
Advances in survey technology yield a broad range of new and beneficial opportunities for public works. Use of static LiDAR, or laser scanning technology for data collection yields many benefits for certain public works engineering and management applications.
This session will lay out a roadmap showing you how to develop, implement, train staff, and continually improve a telematics solution. Dakota County will share what systems they used, the challenges they met, and how they saw a return on investment through idle reduction, driver behavior, a reduction in salt usage, and speed monitoring.
Creating a snow plan and other policy documents addressing how your agency will conduct winter maintenance is a daunting task. You are always worried that you are forgetting something. Take a look at how several hundred agencies in Canada are using a web-based application to guide them through the process and creates the plan for them.
Don’t miss this opportunity to hear directly from an NWS forecaster about resources available to public works. We’ll discuss and demonstrate new-fangled tools like the NWS widget, hourly weather graph, and NWSChat. We’ll also cover the concept of Decision Support Services and basic radar interpretation.
This session will demonstrate ways the Alaska Department of Transportation; Public Facilities has recently dealt with numerous winter warm weather events in the face of drastically reduced operating budgets through improved forecasting technology, chemical use and changes to equipment.